More than 140 countries recognize Palestine. France, Canada, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia have announced that they will join them. The US and Germany are firmly on Israel's side for now
While the war in Gaza continues, and the peace talks are at a standstill, the world map is slowly changing - more and more countries decide to formally recognize it the state of Palestine. Although most of the members have done it long ago of the United Nations, the wave of recognition has only now reached Israel's Western allies. Palestine is like a state admitted and some Caribbean countries, and new announcements indicate that the number of countries that recognize it will soon approach three quarters of the UN membership.
At the same time, world powers such as the United States and Germany do not change their attitude towards the Palestinian state, considering that recognition should result from a peace agreement, and not from unilateral decisions.
In the previous period, several Western countries announced that they would recognize Palestine, and among the latest applications are the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Malta and Australia. Experts interpret these announcements as part of a growing wave of reactions to the war in Gaza, to the humanitarian disaster caused by Israel, and as an attempt to renew international pressure for a two-state solution.
The Australian government has explicitly said that the recognition will be realized during the UN General Assembly in September, with the condition that the Palestinian Authority fulfills certain political guarantees, such as a guarantee that Hamas will not have a stake in the future government.
Before Australia, France's announcement of recognition at the end of last month raised a lot of media dust and caused numerous comments.
At the end of July, French President Emmanuel Macron on social network X announced that they will formalize this decision at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
"It is urgent that the war in Gaza ends and that the civilian population be saved," said the French president.
The French president supported Israel after the attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023 and often publicly advocates against anti-Semitism, but recently he is increasingly dissatisfied with Israel's war policy in Gaza, the agencies remind.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said France's move "rewards terror" and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US "strongly rejects" Macron's "reckless" announcement.
Which countries recognized Palestinian independence last year?
In 2024, Palestine gained importance, so a kind of "wave" of recognition was launched. Then Norway, Ireland, Spain and Slovenia formally recognized the State of Palestine, as well as the Caribbean states of the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados.
This series of upheavals in the foreign policy of many countries intensified international controversy and led to the diplomatic withdrawal of ambassadors and serious reactions from Israel.
How many UN member states recognize Palestine?
The number of countries that recognize Palestine is changing, but formal data show that after Slovenia's decision, the number of recognitions reached 147 member states of the United Nations, that is. over three quarters of the membership of this organization. That sum includes most of the countries of the Global South, as well as large countries such as China, India and Russia that recognized Palestine in the late 1980s or later.
Palestine has had "non-observer" status at the UN since 2012 โ recognition at the bilateral level is something else and comes gradually.
Which most powerful countries do not recognize Palestine?
Among the most important world powers that still do not give formal recognition are the United States and Germany, which in recent months has repeated that there are no short-term plans for recognition and that such a step will be linked to a broader political framework and security guarantees.
The general pattern is that Israel's biggest strategic partners (primarily the US) are still against unilateral recognition, while the EU and other allies are now divided between those who have already recognized or announced recognition and those who are still holding back.
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